In modern markets, speed and data access decide winners and losers. The best funds already use AI and alternative data to find trades hours—or even days—before the rest of the market catches on.

The good news: retail investors can now tap into similar tools. Platforms like AltIndex take dozens of disparate data sources—fundamentals, technicals, sentiment signals—and fuse them into actionable rankings and alerts.

Here’s how to integrate it into your investing flow so you’re making faster, more data-informed decisions.

We’re covering how to:

Let’s begin.

The obvious starting point is AltIndex’s Top 10 Stock Picks—the highest-growth-potential stocks according to its AI model. The scores are calculated daily using a blend of:

How to read the scores:

Low 60s = soft “buy” signal
High 60s–low 70s = medium “buy”
High 70s = strong interest; worth deeper research
80s = extremely rare—historically the highest conviction scores

So, if you’re interested in a stock, or see someone talking about a ticker as an investment proposition, you can check AltIndex’s rating to see if it agrees or disagrees with that sentiment. To be clear, we’re not saying AI models should be trusted above humans or that their picks are always right—the point is that AI-based data and ratings like these can add an additional layer of due diligence to your investment flow.

Here are AltIndex’s current top 10 stocks, so you can see for yourself:

Sometimes you’re not looking for the best stock overall—you want the best in a category. AltIndex lets you filter scores by industry so you can go straight to leaders in:

Reddit, and especially r/WallStreetBets (WSB), has shown it can move billions in market cap. But the value isn’t in the noise—it’s in spotting changes in conversation volume and tone.

AltIndex tracks:

For example, here are the top-mentioned stocks on r/WallStreetBets today:

But that’s just one part of the Reddit data that AltIndex provides. One of the highest-value pieces of data it offers is summaries of Reddit user sentiment on stocks.

To illustrate, before CoreWeave dropped 20% earlier this week, this Reddit Alert was sent out to AltIndex users:

And as $CAVA began its 22% nosedive after a poor earning’s report, another Reddit Alert went out:

Meanwhile, when sentiment around UnitedHealth began to turn around, a $UNH alert went out too:

No, these Reddit alerts aren’t predicting the future, and no, Reddit users are not always right in their sentiment and predictions. But this kind of sentiment analytics technology can give you a clear picture of how retail investors are feeling about a stock—and retail investors can have a surprising impact on the market.

We use these alerts with caution, of course, but we do pay attention to them—there’s almost always something worth seeing in AltIndex’s Reddit notifications.

See all Reddit Alerts →

Speaking of notifications, it’s a high-value play to create an AltIndex portfolio or watchlist and set notifications to go off for your stocks so you can see whenever anything big happens—and when sentiment turns for the better or worse.

This keeps you ahead of both sudden downside risk and short-term upside opportunities.

AltIndex’s Stock Screener lets you combine industry filters with specific data metrics, so you can analyze and vet out your hunches.

Examples of Stock Screener settings you could search by:

By connecting operational signals to market pricing, you can spot catalysts before they’re fully priced in.

AI won’t replace your research and personal decision making, but it can surface opportunities, trends, and sentiment shifts you’d never catch on your own. Think of it as adding a hedge fund-style analyst team to your personal investing toolkit—without the hedge fund overhead.